Page 122 of The System

“At your foster home?” Dylan asked.

“Yes, like I said before.” Theo shifted uncomfortably a little. “And she was obsessed with me; wanted me to fuck her all over the house. Even with the foster parents around, she was all about me and would try to touch me, and you know…”

“No, I don’t,” Dylan said, shaking her head.

“Grab my dick and stuff. She wanted it, is what I’m saying. In public. In private. Wherever.” He looked proud then.

“And you didn’t want to be with her?”

Theo looked away from Dylan and replied, “Nah. She was too young.”

“Not much younger than you.”

“I was into older girls then, but Marin was all over me, I’m telling you. One night, I was in the shower, and she just walked into the bathroom. I was…” He looked up. “Jerking off. I mean, we didn’t exactly get any privacy, so I had to make do with the shower, but she saw me and just wanted it. She tried to take off her clothes. I kicked her out.”

“And then what?” Dylan asked.

“Then what what?”

“Did you finish?” Dylan asked, catching him off guard.

“Jerking off?”

“Yeah.”

“You really need to know that for your investigation?”

“Yes,” Dylan lied.

“Well, yeah,” he said. “You’re not a guy, so you don’t understand, but yeah.”

“After the girl you were repulsed by walked in on you in the shower?”

“I wasn’t repulsed by Marin,” Theo argued and did so quickly. Then, he seemed to realize his mistake and added, “She just wasn’t my thing.”

“Was this before or after you got a girlfriend?”

“Before.”

“So, I want to make sure I understand,” Dylan said. “Because attorneys will ask all these personal questions to prove their cases. They’re a real pain in the ass.”

“Hey,” Kevin said, laughing as they all looked on through the mirror.

“You were a teenage boy with an active sex drive?”

“Yeah, obviously.”

“And you had a girl you were not biologically related to living in the bedroom next door, who was ready and willing to give you sex probably whenever you wanted it, including in that shower, but you resisted because Marin May was what? If not repulsive; was she just ugly to you? Not pretty enough?”

“I never said that. Marin Smith was pretty,” he replied. “And I was… getting it elsewhere at the time, so I was good.”

“You said this was all before your girlfriend.”

“It was. But I had dates and stuff. Other girls put out. I was cool.”

“Other girls?” Dylan caught on.

“Shit. She is good,” Kieran said.

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